As You Are Walking Along a Beach, You Find an Animal

question 6

Multiple Choice

As you are walking along a beach, you find an animal and believe that it belongs to the class Asteroidea. Which of the following characteristics would support your hypothesis that the animal is a sea star and not another type of echinoderm?

• A) It is pentaradially symmetric.
• B) It feeds on other animals.
• C) It has a hydrostatic skeleton, formed from its water vascular system.
• D) Its central region is not well delineated from its appendages.

Recognize various forms of social influence including conformity, compliance, and normative influences.

Explain the psychological mechanisms behind automatic responding and interruption of these routines.

Identify ethical concerns in psychological research, with a focus on studies involving obedience and harm.

Analyze the impact of social roles and situational factors on behavior.

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Definitions:

Independent Variables

Variables in an experiment or model that are manipulated or changed to observe their effect on dependent variables.

Multiple R

Represents a measure of the correlation between observed and predicted values of a variable in multiple regression analysis, indicating the strength and direction of a linear relationship.

Autocorrelation

A measure of how correlated a variable is with itself over successive time intervals, often used in time series analysis.

Significance F

A statistical measure used in the analysis of variance (ANOVA) to determine the likelihood that the observed differences among group means occur by chance.